Is Alexei Navalny still jailed in Russia? I know he was taken mid-June but haven't seen
Any updates, and I've looked for a while. Hoping I missed his release and he's back with his family.
He is a good man, and very brave. He should be released next week. He actually shouldn't even be in jail at all.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/12/russian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-detained-moscow-protest
Putin critic Alexei Navalny jailed after calling for Moscow protests
Anti-corruption campaigner imprisoned for 30 days after calling on protesters to gatecrash a Russia Day event
Update: Oh crap, the police have seized his office and put bars on the windows,
https://themoscowtimes.com/news/police-seize-navalnys-headquarters-in-moscow-58313
Police ‘Seize’ Navalny’s Headquarters in Moscow
Way back in 2013:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-23348735
A Russian court has just delivered one of the most significant verdicts since Vladimir Putin came to power, jailing opposition leader Alexei Navalny for five years for corruption.
On the face of it, it was a low-level embezzlement trial in a small city in a region of Russia best known for its forests and fairy tales.
The case of a former unpaid adviser to the governor of the Kirov region, who was accused of lining his own pockets with unofficial commissions for contracts with a state-owned timber company.
But the trial of Alexei Navalny was much more than that.
For several years he has been a thorn in the side of the Russian political establishment, campaigning against the endemic corruption, and coining a phrase to describe the ruling party United Russia that has stuck in everyone's minds - "the party of crooks and thieves".
The whole Navalny case is viewed by the Kremlin as a warning to society
In the election years of 2011/12 his significance increased even more, as he became the unofficial leader of the protest movement that brought tens of thousands of people onto the streets. They were the biggest anti-government demonstrations of the Vladimir Putin years.
That was when an old, abandoned investigation into Alexei Navalny's brief time in Kirov was suddenly reheated by the Moscow headquarters of the Russian equivalent of the FBI - the Investigative Committee, or Sledkom.
Sledkom has become a major player in the clampdown on the protest movement, and Alexei Navalny its biggest target to date.
He was arrested, bailed, questioned several times, and then told he would stand trial in Kirov some 500 miles (800km) from his home in Moscow. He had to make the 12-hour train journey for every phase of the trial.
The case was hard fought by both sides, and in his closing remarks to the judge Alexei Navalny was unrepentant.
"We will destroy this feudal society that is robbing all of us," he raged.
"If somebody thought that on hearing the threat of six years in prison I was going to run away abroad or hide somewhere, they were mistaken. I cannot run away from who I am.
"I have nothing else but this, and I don't want to do anything else but to help my country. To work for my fellow citizens."
Navalny supporters say the election campaign will continue even if he is jailed
"This can't go on forever," he added. "A situation in which 140 million people in one of the biggest and richest countries in the world are subjugated by a handful of worthless monsters.
"They are not even oligarchs, who built up their wealth through shrewdness or wisdom. They are a bunch of former Komsomol activists, turned democrats, turned patriots, who grabbed everything into their own hands."
'Only one strategy'
Lilia Shevtsova, an analyst at the Carnegie Center in Moscow, said she had no doubt this was a political trial.
"The whole Navalny case is viewed by the Kremlin as a warning to society. Vladimir Putin would like society to accept the new rules of the game, and the new rules are 'You have to obey us on the principle of total and absolute loyalty. You don't have the right to have ambitions, you have no right to fight for power. Loyalty is the main principle of your behaviour.'"
Only last week Alexei Navalny lodged his papers for his first proper foray into mainstream Russian politics - an attempt to run in the September elections to choose the mayor of Moscow.
Even though he had no access to the government-owned television channels, he was reckoned to be in second place, behind the Kremlin-backed incumbent Sergei Sobanyin.
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I share Your concern 
Lets us know if any updates.
